Posted on 09/30/2007 9:50:41 AM PDT by indcons
Barack Obama's campaign has stubbornly failed to gather momentum, while Hillary Clinton powers ahead. Paul Harris in New York on the man from Illinois who stalled in the polls.
For Barack Obama it was a daring move: hold a rally last week in the heart of New York, the fortress home of his rival, Senator Hillary Clinton.
It seemed to pay off. As he bounded onto the stage in Manhattan's Washington Square in front of a packed crowd of 25,000, he beamed his broad smile and shouted: 'Look at this crowd!'
Obama's gamble seemed to have worked. It generated a swath of newsprint in the Democratic stronghold of the city and was designed to send a message to Clinton that she could not even count on the support of her home turf.
Yet the day after the rally - at which those attending surrendered their email addresses - a message from the Obama campaign popped into inboxes across New York. 'Thanks for coming out last night,' it said, before adding: 'We're still shy of our goal of 350,000 people giving to the campaign.'
For the fact is Obama's campaign appears to be caught in the doldrums. Beneath all the endless public appearances, television interviews and the hype of 'Obama-mania' lies a story of a campaign that has completely failed to budge Clinton out of her position as frontrunner. Indeed, Obama has barely moved in the polls since he exploded onto the political scene when he announced his candidacy earlier this year. It is Clinton's poll numbers that have recently been nudging ever higher, not Obama's.
(Excerpt) Read more at observer.guardian.co.uk ...
Obama has barely moved in the polls since he exploded onto the political scene
LOL!! Priceless. - Who are these idiots, anyway?
There had to be a thousand exploding Obama jokes waiting for that stupid phrase to appear.
Exploded. LOL!
> Time running out for the making of a black President
Ran out a long time ago.
We’ve already had our first black president,
according to Bill Clinton.
And our first Mexican president, if the analogy holds.
Then there’s the Thompson-Rice ticket ...
Obama did pretty good for a noob.
I agree. Time IS running out for Condi to enter the race.
I dont care if he is black. I dont like him because he is a commie and propably a closet muslim.
.....Time running out for the making of a black President....
I’ll do my part...Sharpton for President!
Maybe that’ll help.
Possible, “Manchurian Candidate”........
Think about the International press and how the Muslims would use that....?
There are plenty of black Americans who would make a great president but black conservative Republicans can’t seem to get elected at the state level. That’s a shame. Can you imagine Mike Steele as president? We should be so lucky but he probably can’t even get elected in his home state of MD since too many people there are slaves to the Demo party.
Since is half white why isn’t he called a half breed (race) candidate
They are going by old segregationists’ laws - an eight or so black, you’re a brother.
Only white supremisists(David Duke), black supremists(the reverend Al Sharpton), and the liberal MSM(like The Guardian) hold to that standard now.
Qualified blacks who happen to be conservative are not even “black” in the eyes of those who run the liberal plantation.
Curious article for a man who has out-fundraised Hillary the last three quarters (especially when cheating is excluded).
Perhaps they should look into the ties between Hillary and the pollsters.
And if you think race doesn’t matter your on some serious drugs.
Had one already. Twice. Clinton. Obama’s a johnny-come-lately.
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